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The Turkish Bear Girl

Captured by hunters

One Ali Osman, hunting on Mt Olympus with his companion Bahri, killed an enormous she-bear and was then attacked by what he described as a howling wood-spirit that made his hair stand on end. Eventually he succeeded in overpowering the creature and realised she was just a little girl. They tied her up with their belts, and found, he said, conclusive proof in the bear's lair that a human being had lived there.

Where did the Turkish Bear Girl come from?

Enquiries by Maranz at the village of Mussalilar revealed that 8 years previously, a woman (Fatma) with a three-month-old child who had arrived at the village looking for work left her daughter on the ground while gathering brushwood in the forest. A she-bear carried off the daughter, and Fatma left the village soon after, unable to bear the sight of Mt Olympus.

Her subsequent development in detail

The Turkish bear girl was taken to the hospital for the mentally ill at Bakirkey. There's quite a bit more about the child's development in Wolf-Children and Feral Man by Singh and Zingg.